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Implementing a Kalman Filter in Postgres

Clean up noisy data directly in your database using SQL functions, recursive queries, and aggregates Modern GPS datasets are notoriously noisy: satellites drift, buildings scatter signals, and consumer devices introduce frequent errors. When working with millions of position samples from vehicles, smartphones, or IoT devices, this noise makes analysis unreliable. Routes jump, tracks zigzag, and outliers distort aggregates. The Kalman Filter is the standard technique for smoothing such data. Tr

What is “good taste” in software engineering?

Technical taste is different from technical skill. You can be technically strong but have bad taste, or technically weak with good taste. Like taste in general, technical taste sometimes runs ahead of your ability: just like you can tell good food from bad without being able to cook, you can know what kind of software you like before you’ve got the ability to build it. You can develop technical ability by study and repetition, but good taste is developed in a more mysterious way. Here are some

What is "good taste" in software engineering?

Technical taste is different from technical skill. You can be technically strong but have bad taste, or technically weak with good taste. Like taste in general, technical taste sometimes runs ahead of your ability: just like you can tell good food from bad without being able to cook, you can know what kind of software you like before you’ve got the ability to build it. You can develop technical ability by study and repetition, but good taste is developed in a more mysterious way. Here are some

Broker-Side SQL Filtering with RabbitMQ Streams

RabbitMQ 4.2 introduces SQL filter expressions for streams, enabling powerful broker-side message filtering. In our benchmarks, combining SQL filters with Bloom filters achieved filtering rates of more than 4 million messages per second — in highly selective scenarios with high ingress rates. This means only the messages your consumers actually care about leave the broker, greatly reducing network traffic and client-side processing overhead. High-throughput event streams often deliver large vo

If You're a Fan of 'Gravity Falls', You Have to Check Out This New Netflix Series

Each week, Netflix drops a list of the top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week ending Sept. 21, the animated series Haunted Hotel crept onto the list of most-watched shows. Haunted Hotel isn't necessarily an "adult animation" series the way that something like Big Mouth or BoJack Horseman is, and it doesn't deal with especially adult or raunchy themes, but it's also not targeted at young kids. The comedy series was created by Rick & Morty writer Matt Roller and it ce

The Comic Book Guide to the ‘Wolverine’ Game

Last night Sony finally re-revealed Insomniac’s highly anticipated next step in the Marvel gaming universe: trading the high-flying webslinging of their Spider-Man games for a gore-soaked soiree into the realm of Marvel’s mutants for Wolverine. While we learned that this is certainly going to be a much more gory take on the studio’s trademark action, we also learned that Wolverine will be including a few familiar faces, factions, and locales from the comics, too. Of course you know who Logan is

If Your 'Gravity Falls'-Obsessed Kid Needs Something More Grown Up, I Have a Netflix Show for You

Each week, Netflix drops a list of the top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week ending Sept. 21, the animated series Haunted Hotel crept onto the list of most-watched shows. Haunted Hotel isn't necessarily an "adult animation" series the way that something like Big Mouth or BoJack Horseman is, and it doesn't deal with especially adult or raunchy themes, but it's also not targeted at young kids. The comedy series was created by Rick & Morty writer Matt Roller and it ce

Marvel's Wolverine slices his way onto PS5 in fall 2026

The rumors of Marvel's Wolverine showing up during Sony's September State of Play turned out to be true after all. The trailer was our first decent look (well, first official one, anyway) at the game since it was announced back in 2021. Sony and Insomniac Games revealed a release window too: Marvel's Wolverine is coming to PS5 in fall 2026. A gruff-sounding Liam McIntyre (Spartacus: Vengeance, JD Fenix in Gears of War 4 and Gears 5) is taking on the mantle of Logan here. As creative director Ma

Wolverine Gets First Gameplay Reveal, Launching on PS5 Next Year

After years of silence since its announcement back in 2021, the Marvel Wolverine game finally saw the light of day on Wednesday during Sony's State of Play event. The game, featuring the popular mutant, is slated to come out next year. Developed by Insomniac Games, Wolverine is a standalone story set in the X-Men universe that the developer says is going to be a bloody mess. Not much of the game was shown during the event, but it is confirmed, as of now, to be coming out in the fall of 2026. T

Insomniac Games Finally Unveils Its ‘Wolverine’ Game

Since 2018, Insomniac Games has built out a solid series of Spider-Man games headlined by Peter Parker and Miles Morales. It was only a few years ago the studio revealed it was aiming to give Wolverine the same treatment, but it’s been quiet on the project since then—and that silence was further exacerbated with 2023’s hack. But at today’s State of Play event, the studio rolled up with a first true look at the game. Players will take on the role of Logan (played by Liam McIntyre) as he travels

Wolverine looks bloody good in first gameplay trailer

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been a long wait, but we finally got to see Insomniac’s take on Wolverine in action. The studio released a new trailer showing some of the surprisingly bloody superhero gameplay at Sony’s most-recent State of Play showcase. There’s no date yet,

Triple Buffering in Rendering APIs

If you’ve ever toggled VSync on and watched your frame rate seesaw between smooth and stuttery, you’ve met the limitations of double buffering. Triple buffering adds a third buffer to the swapchain so that the GPU can keep rendering even when a frame is queued for presentation, delivering smoother animation and higher average FPS with VSync on. Double buffering With double buffering, we use two buffers, one for presenting to the screen and one for rendering off-screen, swapping between them as

Nissan Leaf 2026 Review: Superb Steering, Competitive Pricing

Nissan quotes 160 kilowatts (214 horsepower) and 252 pound-feet of torque for the single motor that drives the front wheels. Acceleration is adequate in the standard drive mode, with Sport providing a bit more boost, enough to spin an inside front wheel in turns when pressed. The Eco mode was underwhelming, and while there’s a Personal mode to tweak your own combination of settings, we’d be shocked if anyone ever uses it. Nissan offers four levels of regenerative braking, controlled via paddle

Server-Driven UI with GraphQL & WebAssembly: Crafting the Dynamic, High-Performance Frontend of Tomorrow

Key Takeaways SDUI Necessity: Server-Driven UI will become essential for high-agility scenarios demanding rapid UI evolution and backend control over frontend composition. GraphQL as Orchestrator: GraphQL’s declarative nature and flexible schema will be ideal for querying and orchestrating dynamic UI structures and properties. WebAssembly for Performance: WebAssembly will enable high-performance, efficient rendering of server-defined UI, offering smaller bundles and near-native execution. Archi

Adam (YC W25) Is Hiring to Build the Future of CAD

We’re building the founding engineering team at Adam. At Adam, we’re tackling a frontier problem: building a new way to interface with CAD via AI. This demands creativity, deep technical ability, and novel thinking. As part of the founding engineering team you may: Sprint for two weeks to build a new product vertical from scratch Develop new interfaces for AI-driven CAD workflows Design, implement, test, and deploy full features Work with our product team to ensure a fast, consistent, and

Computing’s Top 30: Upal Mahbub

When he’s not developing hardware-efficient computer vision solutions for extended reality (XR) or creating novel facial landmark detection algorithms for mobile devices, you might find Upal Mahbub writing poetry in Bengali, creating “zentangle” art, or editing Dorpon, the literary magazine he publishes. Or? You might check the list of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024, where you will definitely find him. Mahbub is a staff engineer in the Multimedia R&D Lab at Qualcomm. In

Pure and Impure Software Engineering

Why do solo game developers tend to get into fights with big tech engineers? Why do high-profile external hires to large companies often fizzle out? Why is AI-assisted development amazing for some engineers and completely useless for others? I think it’s because some engineers are doing very different kinds of work to other engineers. Those two types of engineers often assume their counterparts are simply incompetent, but they’re really just working in different fields. Pure and impure enginee

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring First Product Manager to Shift FinOps Left

Overview We were the first to shift FinOps left, and we see a big opportunity to make the $600B/year spent on cloud proactively managed, instead of teams reacting to surprise cost spikes. Reactive is too late, we already tried that approach with our first startup. Join us as our first PM 🚀 This is a high-impact role at the heart of our product and growth strategy. You’ll own critical parts of our roadmap, from early-stage discovery through to GTM, and shape how we scale. You’ll work directly

Intel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes

Semiconductor giant Intel continues to shake up its senior leadership since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm as CEO in March. Intel announced Monday that Michelle Johnston Holthaus will depart the company after more than three decades. Johnston Holthhaus was most recently chief executive officer of Intel products and will remain a strategic adviser. The company also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build a new custom silicon business for outside customers, according to I

Get behind the scenes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 by volunteering

Want to launch a startup? Build a brand? Run a large-scale conference like this one day? Volunteering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is one of the best ways to see how the magic happens — and learn what it takes to pull off a world-class event. Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography TechCrunch Disrupt returns to San Francisco this October 27–29, and we’re calling in the crew to roll up their sleeves and help make it all happen. Whether you’re greeting attendees, supporting speakers, or running ba

TIFF 2025: Frankenstein, Knives Out 3, and all the biggest movies from Toronto

The Toronto International Film Festival is almost like a preview of the movie slate for the next few months — and this year I’m watching as much as possible to give you all the scoop on what’s ahead. To do that, I’ll be writing a dispatch covering every movie I’ve seen that day, which will run daily throughout most of the festival. That includes bigger movies you probably already know about, like Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man and Frankenstein, along with hopefully some great new films you maybe wer

The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should be “Why superhuman AI WILL kill us all,” because even the coauthors don’t believe that the world will take the necessary measures to stop AI from eliminating all non-super humans. The book is beyond dark, reading like notes scrawled in a dimly lit prison cell the night before a dawn execution. When I meet these

I should have loved electrical engineering

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world

First Lady Melania Trump hosted a meeting of the White House’s AI education task force where several CEOs touted their commitments. President Donald Trump is expected to host tech CEOs in the Rose Garden later on Thursday, with an invite list that includes Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, The Hill reported . Google said it would allocate $150 million of the $1 billion it already pledged toward education and job training to “grants to support AI education and di

Anker's Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro is the ultimate party projector

Anker took it's excellent Nebula X1 projector and said, "what if that but louder?" The result is the Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro that marries Anker's 4K, 3,500 lumen Google TV projector with a 160W Soundcore speaker, offering what should be an incredible outdoor entertainment machine. Marrying these products wasn't just a matter of jamming them into the same box. The subwoofer was set up to float inside the assembly on a spring-type system to avoid vibrating the laser-powered 4K video. And to get s

I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

The first Gleam Conference – Gathering 2026

About the Gathering Welcome - you've found the information hub for the Gleam Gathering 2026. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to register their interest in the Gathering. The feedback we got was insightful and honest, and we will listen to it as much as possible going forward with the event. And due to the volume of responses, we can confirm that GLEAM GATHERING 2026 IS A GO! We will be gathering on Saturday 21 February 2026 in Bristol, UK! We are truly honoured to announce our fi

Ousted Democratic FTC commissioner can return (again) for now

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner fired by President Donald Trump without cause, can at least temporarily return to work while her legal case plays out. This h

Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

There’s never been a shortage of hot takes about what really makes the United States and China so different: Capitalism versus socialism; democracy as opposed to authoritarianism; Christianity or Confucianism; equity versus efficiency. In his highly anticipated new book, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Hoover Institution fellow Dan Wang proposes a fresh lens for looking at the world’s two largest superpowers: the US is a “lawyerly society,” he argues, while China is an “engineer